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1972 · Jingūmae, Jingūmae, Japan

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Think tank and academic arm of the UN

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United Nations University

Jingūmae, Jingūmae, Japan · Exact work coordinates

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Think tank and academic arm of the UN

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Field	United Nations University 1972 · Jingūmae, Jingūmae, Japan	Karl Moser 1888 · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1972	1888
Place	Jingūmae, Jingūmae, Japan	Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Place context	Jingūmae, Jingūmae, Japan	Representative site: Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
Climate	18°C · 13.3h daylight · 6 km/h wind	13°C · 13.9h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Old Cantonal School Aarau
Focus	Education building	4 works in corpus
Architects	Kenzo Tange	Karl Moser
Linked context	Bureaus Kenzo Tange Associates	Notable works Old Cantonal School Aarau St. Paul's Church, Basel St. Paul's Church, Bern Basel Badischer Bahnhof
Typologies	education campus building	education church sacred space gallery tower performance venue
Materials	Not recorded yet.	stone glass
Carbon signals	education and campus building gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Glass and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass Stone
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions. Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	4 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.